Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by IshKebab on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:30AM
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> everybody expects distros to fix security issues
IMO this is a huge mistake in the Linux distro world. It doesn't scale. It's similar to the weird idea that Debian should contain every program in the world and if the authors want their programs to be installable on Debian they must make a Debian package for it. And Fedora and Arch and Gentoo and...
Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by brnt on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:39AM
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Debian does not prevent you from installing stuff from elsewhere, it's just that their packages come with certain availability and stability guarantees. You may not care for them, but clearly bonkers it is clearly not.
IMO this is a huge mistake in the Linux distro world. It doesn't scale. It's similar to the weird idea that Debian should contain every program in the world and if the authors want their programs to be installable on Debian they must make a Debian package for it. And Fedora and Arch and Gentoo and...
Clearly bonkers.